Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

About Benjamin Franklin:

Benjamin Franklin is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.
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If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Benjamin Franklin

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Benjamin Franklin

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Benjamin Franklin

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

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... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Benjamin Franklin

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be...

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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that op...

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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

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Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

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I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

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The Things which hurt, instruct.

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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

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He who can have patience can have what he will.

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A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

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If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

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Author Bio

  • NameBenjamin Franklin
  • DescriptionAmerican author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat
  • AliasesThe First American; Silence Dogood; Ben Franklin
  • BornJanuary 17, 1706
  • DiedApril 17, 1790
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Politician; Publisher; Printer; Political Theorist; Postmaster; Inventor; Political Activist; Statesman; Diplomat; Dilettante; Polymath; Chess Player; Designer; Musician; Political Philosopher; Autobiographer
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Copley Medal